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Hitting the ground running: Bourdais's Superleague debut

After a rather miserable time in Formula 1, Sebastien Bourdais moved to Superleague to try to revive old glory days. And he hit the ground running, as he tells Charles Bradley

Charles Bradley Sep 15, 2009, 4:53 PM

"If you'd have told me that I was going to win the super final after practice and qualifying, I'd have probably laughed at you!" Sebastien Bourdais was not renowned in the Formula 1 paddock for his sense of humour - in fact, quite the reverse. But he had plenty of reasons to be miserable over his plight after 27 grands prix with Scuderia Toro Rosso. Six points, and a best finish of seventh, was hardly the return he was looking for after winning the Champ Car title four times in America.

His exit from the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in July proved to be his last - for now, at least - from F1. Less than two months later he was back on a starting grid, this time in the football club-based Superleague Formula single-seater category, driving for Spanish La Liga side Sevilla.

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Author Charles Bradley

Charles Bradley is Motorsport.com’s Global Editor in Chief. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.